Close, but not entirely true. Since you felt compelled to bring up Clinton again, give him credit where credit is due.

2.5 After Iraq kicks out inspectors, Clinton sends in bombers and destroys Iraq's ability to produce weapons. This is confirmed by David Kay's testimony.

#4 is wrong. Bush pulled out the inspectors because he thought them incompetent and he was invading come hell or high water.

Your other comment about war creating peace is cute, but naive. Any student of the Middle East can see that war has been their way of life since time immortal. They are not like us; they have different values and mores in life. What seems rational to us is ridiculous to them.

Dan makes great thoughtful points. We've been at "war" with terra (as Bush calls it) for almost three years now. Have we made any progress? What have we really accomplished? If you truly think America is safer now than before, you've got your head in the sand.

There's an old American saying, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I worry that Bush is instilling more will in the terrorists and they'll find a way. He seems to be exasperating the situation exponentially. Even Rumsfeld has questioned, "... are we creating more terrorists than we can defeat?"

I don't know. Sometimes I think we're better off just leaving the Middle East completely, to include Israel, and let them have it all. Like the bee hive analogy; you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.